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The Kodiak
Island Borough Assembly held a public hearing about school district funding at
last week's regular meeting.

At issue
was the minimum amount that the assembly should contribute to the fiscal year
2011 budget. During an earlier work session, assembly members expressed a
desire to maintain the same level of funding that it contributed last year.

The school
district had asked assembly members for a local funding increase from $10,290,000
to $10,713,469. The higher amount was requested in order to pay for the hiring
of two math intervention specialists and a technology support person.

During the
public hearing, several people spoke in favor of the higher level funding
including representative from the villages who participated through video
conference. In person, the assembly heard from several citizens including third
grade teacher Cat Ellen DeVries. She shared success stories from Main Elementary
school where the district's only "math
interventionist" has been working with students.

--(KIBSD Budget 1"Intervention
at a ... single penny count.")

Along with the voices in favor
of the higher funding, there was one person who spoke in agreement with the
assembly's position and that was Mel Stephens.